Nginx Configuration and Optimizing Tips and Tricks Nginx Tip 1. – Organize Nginx Configuration Files Normally Nginx configuration files are located under /etc/nginx path. One good way to organize configuration files is use Debian/Ubuntu Apache style setup: ## Main configuration file ## /etc/nginx/nginx.conf ## Virtualhost configuration files on ## /etc/nginx/sites-available/ /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ ## Other config files on (if needed) ## /etc/nginx/conf.d/ Virtualhost files have 2 paths, because sites-available directory can contain any stuff, like test configs, just copied/created configs, old configs and so on. And sites-enabled contains only really enabled configurations, actually just only symbolic links to sites-available directory. Remember add following includes at the end of your nginx.conf file: ## Load virtual host conf files. ## include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/* ; ## Load another configs from...